MARY LOUISE PARKER RULES!

Best actress in a Comedy - Golden Globe Awards - WEEDS (she beat all those horrible women from Desparate Housewives... ***sorry*** Although Felicity Huffman won for Best Actress in a Motion Picture for Transamerica - another must see film.... and what of Brokeback Mountain? .... pass the tissues please....

Yes, you can laugh - I aspire to make people laugh.

Had a great workout this morning! (4.5 X 10 minutes + weights) I was really in touch with the reality that my running has to be about the process... about the here and now... about today...

GOD only knows how badly I want to run the marathon this summer... but what if I can't? (The question is rhetorical.) I guess what I'm trying to say, is that this morning, the running itself made me happy; it surely contributed to a sane and health filled day.... what more can one ask?

Yet, when I think about my dream of running a marathon.... it feels like I'm on the quest to find the Holy Grail! Cliche?

Before nodding off to sleep, I offer the following verse from the Soundtrack of Wicked which came on while I was stretching this morning:

THAT'S WHY I COULDN'T BE HAPPIER
NO, I COULDN'T BE HAPPIER
THOUGH IT IS, I ADMIT
THE TINIEST BIT
UNLIKE I ANTICIPATED
BUT I COULDN'T BE HAPPIER
SIMPLY COULDN'T BE HAPPIER
Well - not "simply"...
'CAUSE GETTING YOUR DREAMS
IT'S STRANGE, BUT IT SEEMS
A LITTLE -- WELL -- COMPLICATED
THERE'S A KIND OF A SORT OF...COST
THERE'S A COUPLE OF THINGS GET... LOST
THERE ARE BRIDGES YOU CROSS
YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU CROSSED
UNTIL YOU'VE CROSSED...

AND IF THAT JOY, THAT THRILL
DOESN'T THRILL LIKE YOU THINK IT WILL
STILL..
WITH THIS PERFECT FINALE
THE CHEERS AND THE BALLYHOO
WHO
WOULDN'T BE HAPPIER?
SO I COULDN'T BE HAPPIER
BECAUSE HAPPY IS WHAT HAPPENS
WHEN ALL YOUR DREAMS COME TURE
WELL.. ISN'T IT?

HAPPY IS WHAT HAPPENS
WHEN ALL YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE.

indeed...